Towns & cities · South West England
St Levan
St Levan — village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
St Levan is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 446 people. Address: TR19. Wikidata describes it as: "village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom". Coordinates: 50.0410°, -5.6620°.
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Protected designations
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cornwall
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
St Levan (Cornish: Selevan) is a civil parish in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The parish is rural with a number of hamlets of varying size with Porthcurno probably being the best known. Hewn out of the cliff at Minack Point and overlooking the sea to the Logan Rock is the open-air Minack Theatre, the inspiration of Rowena Cade in the early 1930s. It is named for St. Salomon of Cornwall, father of St. Kubi. The brythonic form of the name 'Solomon' is 'Selevan', which was later wrongly interpreted as 'Sen Levan', i.e. 'Saint Levan'. St Levan lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and the South West Coast Path, which follows the coast of south-west England from Somerset to Dorset passes by on the cliffs. There are two Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), designated for the vegetation and geology, and Gwennap Head in particular, is favoured by birdwatchers, many who travel the length and breadth of Britain to watch rare seabirds.
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Background
History
Neolithic flints have been found dating human activity in the area to 5000 years ago. Fifteen hundred pieces of worked flint and chert from the Bronze Age were found during the 1914 excavation at Pedn-men-an-mere and an Iron Age cliff castle at Treryn Dinas may date back 2000 years or more. Many of the hamlets and farms with Cornish prefixes such at Bos and Tre (and possibly Ros) can trace their names back to 600–700 AD while Chy dates back to the 11th or 12th century. The first documentary evidence of a place name is Rospletha, which is mentioned in 1244 and the rest of the other farms are recorded over the next one hundred years. Much of Porthgwarra, the land around Gwennap Head, as well…
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- Coordinates
- 50.0410, -5.6620
- District
- Cornwall
- Parish
- St. Levan
- Postcode
- TR19
- Parliamentary constituency
- St Ives
- Population
- 446
Sources
- wikidata: Q751813 (CC0)
- wikipedia: St Levan (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: St levan church porthcurno.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Churchyard cross in St Levan churchyard, 10m south of the church
Churchyard cross in St Levan churchyard, 10m south of the church — a Grade II*-listed church in england-south-west, United Kingdom.
📷 3Historic churches · South West England
Wayside cross in St Levan churchyard, 10m north east of the church
Wayside cross in St Levan churchyard, 10m north east of the church — a Grade II*-listed church in england-south-west, United Kingdom.
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St Levan's Church, St Levan
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Cross 150m south west of Rospletha
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is St Levan?
- St Levan is in South-West England, United Kingdom (postcode TR19), in the parish of St. Levan.
- Is St Levan a protected site?
- Yes — St Levan is part of the Cornwall National Landscape (AONB).
- Is St Levan free to visit?
- Yes, St Levan is free to enter.
- How do I get to St Levan?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode TR19. It sits within the St Ives parliamentary constituency.